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President Obama, Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, and the Lord's Resistance Army

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SanFranciscoZionist3/08/2012 8:41:37 am PST

re: #248 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

It is amazing how food evokes such a “visceral reaction” from us: from books about how we eat (writen by overeducated white females) to advice on what to eat (from overeducated black females) to recipies on how to prepare things (from diabetic white females), it is laden with nuance, subtext and preconceived notions.

And then there is the economic side of food, which ranges from farm subsidies for agribusiness to tips for sub-minimum-wage waitstaff…

Oh, only tangentially related: there’s an alarmingly goofy piece by Rich Lowry in this week’s Time, about how people’s failure to get married is ruining social mobility. (He does not mention divorce once in this piece. There may be a thought in there somewhere, but he doesn’t manage to nail it down.)

He feels that there should be a national campaign, and Michelle Obama should be its spokeswoman, because she is the daughter of a two-parent household, and a mother in another, ‘which even her husband’s critics respect’.

I don’t know which of her husband’s critics he has in mind, but I entertained myself for quite some time imagining the response if Michelle Obama abandons fitness and nutrition for promoting marriage.

It was a weird week for Time. Joe Klein did an almost unbelievable soft-pitch about Rick Santorum and the ‘unfortunate truths’ he brings up about reproduction and child-rearing.